QNX News

QNX : News : New Version of QNX Realtime Platform avaible
Posted: ( Tue 23rd Jan 2001 08:01:42[AM] UTC )
This new distribution includes version 6 of the QNX RTOS, based on the Neutrino microkernel and the Photon microGUI. The QNX RTP now supports SCSI systems and features a new package manager that allows you to upgrade right from your web browser. For multimedia applications, the new distribution offers streaming audio and video support, and reduced CPU load during MPEG and other audio playback formats.

QNX : News : QNX Quickies.
Posted: ( Wed 13th Dec 2000 10:42:26[PM] UTC )
QNXStart reports, QSSL has introduced DAP which is a cheap license for small companies and developers that allows them to release commercial software for the RTP. There is also a new article on the QDN called Using Neutrino's devctl(). Also the folks at QNX have just sent the FreeAmp team a QNX enabled PC to continue the QNX port of FreeAmp.

QNX : News : Plex86 runs QNX4!
Posted: ( Wed 13th Dec 2000 12:42:20[AM] UTC )
QNXStart reports "After DOS, Linux, Window 95, & Windows NT - Plex86, the open-source alternative to VMWare runs QNX 4! If you cant wait for a real relase to see it in action, you need to go grab the CVS however."

QNX : News : QNX-based Vision System guides shuttle mission
Posted: ( Mon 11th Dec 2000 05:17:57[AM] UTC )
NASA will be attatching $600 million solar arrays to the Alpha space station this weekend, and they will be using a QNX-based vision system to guide the 50-foot Canadarm.

QNX : News : The little OS that could just might
Posted: ( Fri 20th Oct 2000 12:39:16[AM] UTC )
QNX Neutrino was picked to power 3Com's Audrey Net appliance. And alliances with the likes of Palm and Cisco are widely rumored. Embedded operating systems are designed to be hidden from users. So if you haven't heard of QNX Software Systems Ltd.'s QNX Neutrino, you're not alone.

QNX : News : Freebies are nice, freedom is nicer
Posted: ( Wed 4th Oct 2000 07:45:49[PM] UTC )
I'd just finished speaking to an embedded developer who'd chosen Linux over QNX because the last thing QNX's Neutrino is is Free Software. For another, the folks behind QNX have made no bones about what they consider a key distinction between their product and Linux: that pesky GPL.